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5 Books That Build Resilience In Kids

Whether it be adapting to a new classroom, being away from family during a pandemic, not making the sports team, or a change in household rituals, children face challenging situations.

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6 Ways To Build Resilience In Your Child

Inevitably, children will worry about a big project, or experience heartbreak, loss, and failure at some point in their lives. Often, our parental instincts encourage us to rescue them from unpleasant emotions or hijack their experiences to keep them safe. And while we cannot protect our children from experiencing stress and...

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When Partners Disagree: Tools For Parenting On The Same Page

Parenting disagreements are not uncommon, especially with so many different parenting ideologies out there.

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Two Men and a Tantruming Toddler

Kids can break into full-on tantrums at the drop of a hat, and nearly every parent has been where actor Justin Baldoni found himself on Father's Day. How can we release fear of judgement and be with our tantruming toddler during their time of need?

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Spanking Children Is Still Common and Still Harmful

A spanking. That moment where a child receives a swat on their backside for doing or saying something that an adult in their world did not approve of or felt was unsafe. It's likely that you've either received, given, or witnessed a spanking at least once in your lifetime.

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Behavior Charts: I’m Totally Over It

My friend Katie called me in tears last week. Her three-year-old son Max started having these new, long, weepy temper tantrums every day at preschool drop-off. Katie had the mamma guilt blues. Why was Max getting so upset? He loved school. How could she keep leaving him like this each...

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Blue Dolphin and Green Hummingbird Are Perfectly Imperfect

A manufacturing inaccuracy gave rise to a beautiful lesson: we are all perfectly imperfect.

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Teaching Emotional Intelligence and College Students as Change-Makers

Dr. Meghan Gillette, a professor in the field of Human Development and Human Studies at Iowa State University, shares the latest research on nurturing emotional intelligence in children ages 5 to 12, how she uses Team-Based Learning and her insights on teaching social and emotional skills to the next generation....

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School Program Uses PeaceMakers to Aide Social-Emotional Skill Building

A seven-year-old child pulls the "I am kind" PeaceMakers card as part of his one-on-one in school yoga session, and then, asked if he believes this about himself, he shares simply...  "No." The therapist running the program then asks him, "Do you think you might ever feel this way?" He...

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Growing a Growth Mindset: The Big Life Journal

Parenting is hard.  I am 17 years into the raising of humans, and of this one thing I am absolutely certain. I will NEVER get it "right". The good news is this: getting it "right" is no longer my goal.  GROWING A GROWTH MINDSET Today I had the pleasure of chatting...

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